Re: MacOS Big Sur balenaEtcher Bug

[Stephen Muscarella]

I decided I think it's best to purchase the new Librem 14 for Debian 
since it's built for Linux once I get another job that is. (unemployed) 
It's costly...$3,500-$4,000.


On 1/12/21 5:49 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:

On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 11:29:58AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:

On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 08:00:17 +
"Andrew M.A. Cater"  wrote:


That image was for a limited subset of Intel based Macs some years
ago - see various discussions elsewhere in this list. The AMD64 image
should work for current Intel-based Macs.

Thanks for that clarification.

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One other thing that might be relevant: you're on the very latest iteration of
MacOS. Few of us are guaranteed to use Macs necessarily: if your Mac uses 
behaviour/features in the new MacOS that we don't yet know, there may yet be
things we need to learn.

All the very best, as ever,

Andy C.

MacOS Big Sur balenaEtcher Bug

[Stephen Muscarella]

Hello,

I downloaded the debian-10.7.0-amd64-netinst.iso image from the home 
page on Big Sur. I tried to flash it with balenaEtcher and am running 
into problems. When the flash is complete in balenaEtcher, it says files 
cannot be read by the system and when I look at the size of the USB 
bootable it becomes like 2-3 MB and looks corrupted.


Nevertheless, I booted into the debian installation and the interface 
does appear showing "Install Debian" although the screen is zoomed out 
really far. When I hit enter and it brings up the select language screen 
in the Debian installation, the screen is still zoomed out really far 
and the mouse or keyboard are unresponsive.


Any thoughts or ideas?


Configurations:
Big Sur 11.1

Partition Map: MBR

Mac OS Extended (Journaled)


Thanks,

Stephen